Hat-creaser retainer



v B. REICHARD.

HAT CREASER RETAINER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I, 192]- ,4 Patented Feb.7,1922.

T 0 all. whom/itpmay gco'rwern.'

nnn AMrN'RnIoHARn, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

RETAINER.

Be it known that, I,; Bn NJAMIN hum ns,

a citizen of the United States', and a resident'of theboron'gh and-county of Bronx, city and State .of New York, have invented certain new and. Luseful Improvements; in I llat-Creaser Retainers, of which the fol-Q,

lowing isa specification:

M yjiinprovements rel-ate to the type of eviceset forth in my concurrent, application Ser1al No.

soft hatcrease-maintaining 310,775, filed July 114, 1919, and embodied in Letters the same more effective and-positive in function by counteracting; any tendency thereof 1 .to slip out of place, orbecome loose-fupon or detached from, [the inner: portionof'. the vcrown of the hat-to which the device'is applied; the invention consisting essentially in internally barbing the creaser, as I described and claimed specifically,insuch manner as to increase frictional contact with the sides of the hat crown bight and prevent displacewith those on the other side. In Fig 5,,1

show the use of a plurality of connected ment therefrom, substantially as hereinafter set forth.

In the accom an ino drawin 's Fig. l, is an endlelevation of thecreaser; Fig. 2, is an elevation ofeither side of my improved hat creaser;

Fig. 3, is a cross section thereof taken upon plane'of line 3-3, Fig. 2;

Fig. 4., 1s a similar sectional view of the creaser as applied to a hat crown blght, the

latter being also indicated in section;

Fig. 5, is a side elevation'of my creaser,

showing a modification'in the barb arrange-- ment;

Figs. (3 and 7, are elevations of opposite sides of the creaser, illustrating another modification n the arrangement of the to advantage where cheapness of materlal barbs; V V r Fig. 8, is a side elevation of the creaser, showing still another modification in barb arrangement:

Fig. '9, is a likeview showing stillanother modification in which a clearance aperture is formed in the side oftlie creaser adjacent to the barbpoints.

lVhile I do not confine myself to the use p of any specific material ln'the construction of my device, my improved hat crease holder is preferably made of a single plece of relatively thin celluloid bent over upon itself and permanently set; and consists of an essentially semi-cylindrical spine 8, and side.

I Specification of Letters Patent. nkpplieation,filed'February 1, 1921. Serial No. 441,564.

Patent No. 1,367,205, issued-tome Feb. 1st, 1921, and are designed to render.

members or jaws j, j, the longitudinal edges e, e, of' which tend constantly to contact with each other, and hence 'to clamp any material inserted between them- In other words, my crease retainer is preferably al- Patented Feb. 1 922. i

though not necessarily inherently elastic andv f Thus in- Fig. 8, I indicate the formation u of eacli jaw j, y, with an inturned and downturnjed barb b whereas v2, shows either or both jaws formed with a plurality of such barbs, equidistantly positioned apart. Again,

barbs b, b', on the otherjaw, the barbs on the latter interven ng or -break1ng oints in Figs. 6 and7, I illustrate the use, .of three barbs'b, Z), 6, on one jaw, and two barbs b, on either oneor both jaws 9,2, as i may, be preferred, or "found most exped ent.

formed with a clearance space a, for the points of the barbs .7), b, to facilitate engagement thereof with the hat material. In fact I do not limit myself either to the number or the arrangement ofthe barbs formed on my improved crease holder,-the essential feature of the invention being the supplementingof the jaws j, 7', with internal barbm na ted; neither do I limit myself to the material used in theformation of the creaser,

since sheet metal, or an alloy may be used stantially as illustrated in the accompany;

ing drawings; said barbing being inclined single or plural, for the purpose desig-.

inward and downward in the direction of the spine, which latter constitutes the bot- I tom of the device in use, as will be underand'downward projection of the barbing in-.

creases'frictional contact with the portions of the hat crown'inte'rposed between the jaws j, j, and counteracts any tendency to slip or Qlooseness under the stress of han- Tdlin and wearer the hat,ithe"barbingb, "supp ementihg the'gripbf the'edgese, 'e',

ofthejaws or the hat crown, and positively resistin displacementnnless the jaws'are phe -ereaser bwnward without spreading the' "spread apart forcefully 'suflici'ently' to'release e b arbing. In other words, to pull orpush awsapart, afeer ap lication to" the bight of he ferown"of the hat, would only tend to i'nibedfihejbarbing more effectually in the under ordinary- "conditions of use, "Whi1e"a s"before stated I do not confine transparent, so 'that'when in positionon the pose.

most" expedient in "manufacture. stood by reference to Fig. 4. Thisqinward.

matemtand positively resist displacement Eloy'd for'the purposeI prefer to make my," atcreasi'ng"device of celluloid which is I The barbing' h'may be die s'tamped in the blankof' which the "crease retainer is formed,

in a manner well known in the art, or other- 5 Bythe .term .internally barbed as used herein I mean to designate inturned barbs 6, b,.formed'entire1y within the'circumferen tial iboiindaries and edges of the side Inem- 'bers or jaws= j,' j,-with their apices extending in the direction of the hollow spines, 7

as clearly shown in the several figures of 'the accompanying drawings.

"What'I claim; asmy invention and d'esire "to secure by Letters Patent is, p

1. As an-article ofmanufacture, a hat. I crease retainer of the character designated,

comprisin one -pie ce elastic resilient structure having a-hollow splne-r and convergent clamping jaws having --inturned bar s formed entirely within the circumferential edges of" said jaws and with their 'api'c'es extendingtoward said hollow spine, substantially in the" manner and for the purinyself to the use of any particular mate rial, when elastic resilient material is em- Y pose set' forth. r

crease retainer of the character designated,

comjprisinga transparent one piece elastic "'resili'entsti'ucturefhavlng a hollow splne and: convergent clamping jaws having inturned barbs formed entirely within the .cir-

cumfe'rential' "edges of said jaws andwith 'their"apice sextending toward said hollow f 'spine,'fsubstantially in the'manner and for "the purpose'set *fo'rth; 2* 0 BENJAMIN REICHARD. 

